Squidoo Blog by Captain Squid - Tips and Tricks for Lensmasters

10 Old School Rules for the New Age of Squidoo

Recently, after the demise of the Discovery tool and with Squidoo Groups having faded into (mostly) obscure places in the far reaches of Squidoo, an old stand by for optimizing your lens has re-emerged into viability - tagging your lens.
Tag pages are once again indexable by the major search engines. Fluffanutta has an exceptional review [...]

Outbound Link Value on Lenses

I’ve heard several questions the past week about ‘when’ or ‘how’ to add external links (links to other sites) to lenses.
I try to follow a few basic rules of thumb that work quite well for me.
1) add ‘rel=nofollow’ to affiliate links - Especially if they link to some crazy domain or something. Besides, you aren’t [...]

Squidoo Lenses of the Week - Labor Day Edition

Okay, I’m a little late with this one but the last week has been crazy with hurricanes and other assorted life events so that’s just the way it is :P.
First up on this weeks’ Lens of the Week Competition:
Rubiks Cubes as Art by Mosaic -
First off, I was super impressed by the topic choice of [...]